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Feature request for date command

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From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
To: Bob Proulx <bob <at> proulx.com>
Cc: 7997 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7997: Feature request for date command
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2011 11:33:01 -0500

    For date input (using --date=STRING) you can use the TZ variable to
    specify the input timezone.  Here is an example.

      $ date -R --date='TZ="Europe/Rome" 2004-10-31 06:30'
      Sat, 30 Oct 2004 23:30:00 -0600

      $ TZ="America/New_York" date -R --date='TZ="Europe/Paris" 2004-10-31 06:30'
      Sun, 31 Oct 2004 01:30:00 -0400

That does the job, but it is not documented in the manual.
Could you document it, and add these examples?

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Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation
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